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Archives related to: Long, Richard A
| title | Richard A. Long collection, 1951-1976 |
| repository | Atlanta University Center |
| description | The collection consists of the papers of Richard A. Long from 1951-1976. Includes articles, poems, and plays written by Long and galley proofs of articles, poems, and short stories by African American authors including William Henry Sheppard, Jan Vansina, Daniel Biebuyck, James E. Lewis, Frank Willett, and Alain Locke. The collection also contains six audio tapes discussing Broadside Press (Detroit, Mi.) in an interview with William Whitsitt, General Manager; poet Dudley Randall; and African American artists. |
| extent | 7.75 linear ft |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://auctr.on.worldcat.org/oclc/38477190 |
| finding aid | Finding aid available in repository. |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:55 |
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| title | Beauford Delaney collection |
| repository | New York Public Library |
| description | The Beauford Delaney collection consists of correspondence with colleagues, friends, gallery owners, and family members, as well a printed material documenting Delaney's life in Paris. Biographical information is provided in statements Delaney authored, articles prepared by others for catalogs, and his obituary. Among the many friends, colleagues and art collectors with whom he maintained an active correspondence is James Baldwin, who wrote an introduction to a catalog for an exhibition of Delaney's art at Paris' Galerie Lambert in 1964. Other correspondents include artists Charles Boggs, Al Hirschfeld, John Franklin Koenig, and Ellis Wilson, authors James Jones and Henry Miller (who was also a water colorist), art historian Richard A. Long, and his friend Lynn Stone. Additional artists, painters, writers, gallery owners and musicians who corresponded with Delaney include Lawrence Calcagno, Cab Calloway, Elaine DeKooning, Palmer C. Hayden, and Darthea Speyer. |
| extent | 2.1 linear feet (5 boxes) |
| access | Request an in-person research appointment. |
| record link | https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20995#overview |
| record source | https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/bib/b15603263?originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.nypl.org%2Frecord%3Db15603263 |
| acquisition information | Donated by Daniel Richard in 1988. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:55 |
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| title | Richard J. Powell papers, 1971-1992 |
| repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | The Richard J. Powell papers date from 1971 through 1992 and mostly concern Powell's research and writings on painter William H. Johnson. Found is correspondence with curators, scholors, arts administrators, and U.S., Danish, and Scandinavian museums and associations. The papers also include two of Powell's illustrated research and travel journals from 1984 and 1985, printed materials concerning the exhibition Powell curated in 1991 at the National Museum of American Art Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938-1946, research files that contain photocopies of original Johnson archival documents from various research repositories, and photographs (copy prints) of Johnson and his artwork. |
| extent | 1 Linear foot |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.powerich.pdf |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/richard-j-powell-papers-6328 |
| acquisition information | Richard Powell collected this material while conducting research on William H. Johnson. He donated it to the Archives of American Art in July, 2000. |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:55 |
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| title | Richard A. Long posters, 1933-2011 |
| repository | Emory University |
| description | The collection consists of posters collected by Richard A. Long from 1942-2011 depicting African American art, Latin American art, African American dance, domestic and international conferences for 20th century African American literature and diaspora studies, concerts, gallery and museum exhibits, and art festivals. |
| extent | 1 oversized papers box and 4 oversized papers folders (OP) and 4 extra-oversized papers (XOP) |
| access | Unrestricted access. |
| record link | https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/long1355/ |
| record source | http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/rmsg9 |
| acquisition information | Gift, 2016 |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:55 |
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| title | [Richard Long] : [Special Collections artist file]. |
| repository | SFMOMA |
| description | Richard Long: From pass to pass, Sniougoutse La [card announcing exhibition at Anthony d'Offay, London, England, Jun. 4 -- 29, 1985] -- Richard Long: Stone line 1980 and selected new works "In the Cloud: Along an 8 day walk across Scotland, 3/4 hour in cloud, while going over Ben Macdui, the highest point of the walk, coast to coast West to East, 1991" [card announcing exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec. 1991 -- Feb. 1992] -- Richard Long: The space of time, 210 days between the circles "From a circle drawn in snow on the summit of Cotopaxi in Ecuador, 1998, to a circle drawn with water on the summit of Parnassus in Greece, 1999" [card announcing exhibition at Sperone Westwater, New York, N.Y., Apr. 1 -- 29, 2000] -- Richard Long: "In the Cloud: Along an 8 day walk across Scotland, 3/4 hour in cloud, while going over Ben Macdui, the highest point of the walk, coast to coast West to East, 1991" [card announcing exhibition at Sperone Westwater, New York, N.Y., Oct. 19 -- Nov. 16, 1991] -- "Walking With the River's Roar: Anthony d'Offay and Helen van der Meij invite you to the exhibition of new works by Richard Long" [card announcing private viewing for exhibition at 23 Dering Street, New Bond Street, London, England, Mar. 29, 1983] -- Richard Long: Meandering and circling, a three day meandering walk crossing an imaginary circle on Dartmoor, England 1993 [card announcing exhibition at Sperone Westwater, New York, N.Y., Mar. 26 -- Apr. 23, 1994] -- Richard Long: New works "Wind Line Across England: A 130 mile walk in 3 1/2 days from the Irish Sea coast to the North Sea coast, the wind direction at each coast and every ten miles along the way" [card announcing exhibition at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England, Oct. 8 -- Nov. 12, 1986] -- Richard Long [card announcing exhibition at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England, Oct. 22 -- Nov. 26, 1988] -- Richard Long: Splashing around a circle, a walk of four days, England 1997 "A stone thrown into each river and stream at its crossing place with an imaginary circle 41 miles wide surrounding Salisbury Plain and Marlborough Downs" [card announcing exhibition at Sperone Westwater, New York, N.Y., Sept. 20 -- Nov. 8, 1997] -- Richard Long: Books, prints, printed matter "An 8 day mountain walk in Sobaeksan, Korea, Spring 1993" [card announcing opening of exhibition at the Third Floor Print Gallery, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., Mar. 24, 1994] -- Richard Long: New Works [card announcing exhibition at Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France, Mar. 10 -- Apr. 15, 1984] -- Richard Long: A Lappland walk [postcard announcing exhibition at Sperone Westwater, New York, N.Y., May 5 -- Jun. 2, 1984 -- Richard Long: HIgh tide to high tide, East coast to West coast, England 1992 "River Medway to River Severn, a walk of 173 miles in seven and a half tides, from high tide on the River Medway (low tide on the River Severn) to high tide on the River Severn (low tide on the River Medway)" [postcard announcing exhibition at Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov. 7- Dec. 2, 1992]. |
| extent | 1 folder (13 pieces) : color portraits ; 30 cm |
| access | n/a |
| record link | https://sanfranciscomuseumofmodernart.on.worldcat.org/oclc/919222159 |
| finding aid | n/a |
| acquisition information | n/a |
| updated | 02/14/2025 10:07:55 |
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